So, maybe it's me, but…what does a gorilla have to do with Teenage Zombies?
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Double Bill Pressbook:
The Incredible Petrified World
and Teenage ZombiesRead More »
Here's the UK pressbook for Hammer's Fear in the Night, with Peter Cushing, Ralph Bates, Judy Geeson, and Joan Collins. I like Peter Cushing's comment in the Press Features that he wanted to be a cowboy like Tom Mix.
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Long time fiend from Zombos' Closet, Tony Rivers, often sighted prowling around the Classic Horror Film Board, strikes once again, with his pressbook scans for Jungle Captive, with Vicky Lane as the Ape Woman. The lobby ballyhoo and poster cut-outs must have been awesome to see.
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The UK pressbooks for horror and terror movies are normally so neat and proper, you'd expect a cup of tea being sipped while perusing them. Here's the pressbook for Hammer's Demons of the Mind, filled with depravity, incest, and torture. Have a scone on me.
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Having said that the German pressbooks I've seen are usually one big sheet fold-outs, of course I catch this one for 4D Man (1959) tumbling out of the closet. It's one long, narrow sheet that unfolds. Very stylish.
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Here's a German pressbook for Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. The German pressbooks I've seen so far are usually a one sheet fold-out with a splendid scene-rich centerfold. They also include the ad mats on cheap pulp paper to be cut out and used in newspapers.
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Oh, those wild beatniks. Wild, wild, wild. Could never get the hang of those bongos, though. Rhythm’s just not my bag, man. But I dug the tights the women wore. Slinky and sexy. One of the best horror movies with a beatnik atmosphere is A Bucket of Blood. Sherlock Holmes once quipped about “art in the blood” when discussing Mycroft, but A Bucket of Blood posits blood-in-the-art for a nice kick in the jive. A bucket’s worth, more or less.
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A very enjoyable movie with great Harryhausen special effects. A monsterkid classic. The art direction on a budget for Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956) is exemplary. From the weird, featureless alien survival suits to the rotating flying saucers, and let's not forget that fantastic warbling alien voice, it's still fun to watch. Here's the UK pressbook for it.
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The exploitation angle is pushed hard in this pressbook for Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers. That pilot's singular expression, used in the poster art, is so direct, so embracing of suspense, that it's quite a teaser for seeing the move. If it wasn't the cold war fear, it was fear of alien invaders that sipped around the coffee tables of 1950s/1960s suburbia and metropolises.
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Movie Pressbook:
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Nice amount of promotional tie-in for Gorgo: see the Special Book Editions page for tie-ins to Famous Monsters of Filmland, Charlton Comics (I loved Charlton Comics!), and a movie novelization. Gorgo is one of the better Bs coming out of the 1960s mostly because of the storyline, with an appealing theme of a mom just wanting to protect her child. And what a big mother she is.
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Cold War paranoia, an unstoppable missile blazing a path of destruction and stock footage galore heats up this science fiction quickie to near zero temperature. But this pressbook for The Lost Missile is hot. Intense exploitation poster art and a shock tag theater giveaway (for shock-aphasia!) push the expectations for excitement high even if the movie's payload fizzles.
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The MGM pressbook for Gorgo is as big as, well, Gorgo. Here's part 1 to chew on. See the movie herald here.
For part 2 of this pressbook, go here.
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